Healthy Blueberry Muffins

This recipe for Healthy Blueberry Muffins are delicious and nutritious! The addition of oat bran flakes gives the muffins a bit more fiber without lacking taste.

Now that my son has started to eat “real solids” and not just baby food, I have been doing my best to feed him as healthy as possible. I refuse to buy pre packaged junk for him (if I do buy pre packaged I read ingredients so I know what I’m buying) so lately I have been experimenting with a lot of baking. I recently made him Healthy Toddler Muffins, it’s a recipe has been quite popular on The Bewitchin’ Kitchen and they’re delicious. It was a relief to find out that Carter liked them so I wanted to broaden my muffin skills and came up with a recipe for healthy blueberry muffins.

Blueberries seem to be on sale every week here on the North Coast here in British Columbia, not that I’m complaining. Anytime I can get fruit for as cheap as possible, I’m laughing. I picked up a few pounds of blueberries the other day and a couple of bananas and went to work. Most blueberry muffin recipes seem to be cake like: they contain a lot of oil, sugar and unnecessary junk. All the recipes I Googled made me cringe, even the “healthy” ones. I took some of the best, mashed them together and added a few of my own touches. I’m not saying this recipe is perfectly healthy, but it’s a start. Personally, I don’t want to feel guilty for having a muffin for breakfast. Muffins shouldn’t be a dessert, especially if they’re for breakfast or a snack for a toddler.

This particular recipe is made with a mini muffin tin (makes 36), but that’s mostly because I lost my regular tins in the move. If you’re using a regular muffin tin, bake a little longer. Keep checking on them.

Sorry, I’m not too sure about weight watchers points as I’ve never used that program before. I’m sure if you take the ingredients listed, convert them to points you’ll be able to get a total. Then divide it by how much it makes 🙂

Thank you for sharing this recipe! I’ve been looking for a healthy recipe to use up my frozen blueberries. I didn’t have any applesauce at home, but couldn’t wait to make these, so I made some homemade applesauce. I just put a peeled, cored apple in the microwave with water and then added some cinnamon and nutmeg after smashing the apple. The recipe turned out so delicious! With it having bran, I didn’t expect it to be that tasty, but it was so yummy. I’ll be making this again. 5 stars!